Tobacco-hanger



(No Model.)

W. H. SNOW.

TOBACCO HANGER.

No. 415,399. Patented NOV. 19, 1889.

Inventon UJ jtnesses Wvi/( UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM HENRY SNOWV, OF HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA.

TOBACCO-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,399, dated November19, 1889.

Application filed October 12, 1889. Serial No. 326,870. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY Snow, a citizen of the United States,residing at High Point, in the State of North Carolina, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in TobaccoHangers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus employed in the curing of greentobacco-leaves; and it consists of an improvement in the construction ofthe stick or hanger upon which the leaves are strung and sustained,being specifically an improvement upon the stick or hanger forming partof the apparatus for the curing of tobacco described in Letters Patentgranted to me July 14, 1885, No. 322,330, and the following is aspecification of my present invention.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the same, Figure 1 is a frontelevation of my improved stick or hanger, one end thereof, preciselysimilar to that shown, being broken away. Fig. 2 is a lateralcrosssection thereof. Fig. 3 is a top View of the tobacco-rack, showinghow the sticks or hangers are to be used; and Fig. :l: is a sectionalview thereof through the line a l) of Fig. 3.

As described in our previous patent above referred to, the stick orhanger A is of Wood of suitable dimensionssay about three feet long byone inch by three-quarters of an inch-and is provided with about sevenprongs 1), preferably of steel wire, driven through the stick, extendingout at right angles thereto, and extending off from each side of saidstick about four inches. These sticks are arranged in racks D or ontier-poles in the well-known common log barn when in use for holding theleaves, said rack being a rectangular frame of wood having notches orsockets (Z to receive the tenoned end 0 of the sticks and support themand their load.

The leaves of tobacco are cut from the stalks, and their stem-butts areimpaled on the wires until the stick or hanger is full, which is thenplaced in the rack or on tierpoles until the latter is full, the tenon Cof the stick or hanger being supported on the rack by the insertionthereof into the mortise or socket of the rack-frame or on the tierpoleswithout the mortise-socket.

In the use of my stick or hanger described in said patent, as well asother sticks provided with laterally-extending hooks, prongs, or arms,much difficulty has been experienced by the prong or pin becoming loosefrom the wood from various causessuch as shrinkage, weight, wear, &c.andmy present invention is intended to obviate that diffieulty by the meansadopted by me of inserting and securing the steel wire forming theprongs, and this is accomplished as follows, viz: the steel-wire pinssharpened at both ends are driven by suitable mechanism laterallythrough the wood stick or hanger about three-quarters of an inch belowthe top surface thereof, and by other suitable mechanism the extendedends of the prongs are bent over in the opposite direction, (see Fig.2,) and by the same operation are embedded in the surface of the wood ofthe stick forming the device shown in Fig. 1. By this means the prongsof steel wire extending on each side of the stick are held firmlywithout possibility of their being affected by shrinkage of the wood orby Wear and tear, and result in sustaining a greater weight withoutbeing moved from the horizontal line. It is obvious, however, that thepin or prong may be made in two pieces, each half being driven to thehilt into the wood and bent overin opposite directions to each other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A tobacco stick or hanger consisting of a wooden body-piece, incombination with a series of hard-metal prongs of wire arranged at rightangles thereto on either side at intervals, and inserted laterallythrough the body-piece and with the pointed end thereof bent over,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 18th dayof Septemher, A. l). 1889.

WILLIAM HENRY SNOYV.

W'itn esses:

E. D. STEELE, H. W. FENTON.

